HelioLearnSkills for every stage

GRADES 1–12 · A PATH THAT GROWS WITH YOU

Useful skills.
Every stage.

Explore an idea. Watch the steps. Make it your own.

Build confidence with technology, communication, data and decisions. Each grade has six carefully sequenced experiences with examples, exercises and projects. Start free, with no sign-in required.

CHOOSE A STARTING POINT

Your grade, your next skill

01

DISCOVER

Grade 1

Read aloud together; point, draw or say your answer.

  • Point, choose and save
  • Tell a three-picture story
  • Count and compare
  • Follow an arrow path
  • Stop and ask a trusted adult
  • Build a paper pencil home

6 experiences · about 25 minutes each

Explore Grade 1
02

DISCOVER

Grade 2

Read aloud together; use pictures and short sentences.

  • Give your work a home
  • Give clear friendly instructions
  • Make a picture chart
  • Spot and fix an instruction bug
  • Be kind and ask permission
  • Plan and share a small job

6 experiences · about 25 minutes each

Explore Grade 2
03

BUILD

Grade 3

Try with a partner, then repeat one step independently.

  • Save, reopen and back up
  • Write for a new pupil
  • Tally then make a bar chart
  • Use a repeat block
  • Separate fact and preference
  • Compare two paper bridges

6 experiences · about 35 minutes each

Explore Grade 3
04

BUILD

Grade 4

Check your result and explain a choice in your own words.

  • Build a tidy learning portfolio
  • Make a three-slide explanation
  • Check a survey and report its limits
  • Trace a conditional choice
  • Check a confident AI answer
  • Plan within a pretend budget

6 experiences · about 40 minutes each

Explore Grade 4
05

CONNECT

Grade 5

Use evidence, organise your work and ask for targeted help.

  • Version a shared project
  • Write a useful request
  • Find and interpret a mean
  • Track a changing variable
  • Check source, date and relevance
  • Interview for a design need

6 experiences · about 40 minutes each

Explore Grade 5
06

CONNECT

Grade 6

Check assumptions and compare more than one approach.

  • Choose a format for the job
  • Design an accessible explanation
  • Compare mean and range
  • Validate before calculating
  • Recognise manipulation in a message
  • Estimate and schedule a project

6 experiences · about 45 minutes each

Explore Grade 6
07

INVESTIGATE

Grade 7

Record your method so another learner can repeat it.

  • Manage roles in shared work
  • Summarise and credit sources
  • Use the median thoughtfully
  • Trace a function
  • Compare independent evidence
  • Define success before testing

6 experiences · about 45 minutes each

Explore Grade 7
08

INVESTIGATE

Grade 8

Test edge cases and explain the limits of your conclusion.

  • Troubleshoot one variable at a time
  • Disagree using reasons
  • Inspect a percentage claim
  • Accumulate a list total
  • Minimise data in a form
  • Choose between competing designs

6 experiences · about 45 minutes each

Explore Grade 8
09

EVALUATE

Grade 9

Compare alternatives using explicit evidence and criteria.

  • Create a reproducible workspace
  • Build an evidence-based argument
  • Compare changes using the starting value
  • Test boundaries in a decision
  • Distinguish AI help from evidence
  • Budget for a small pilot

6 experiences · about 50 minutes each

Explore Grade 9
10

EVALUATE

Grade 10

Justify trade-offs and document a reproducible method.

  • Automate a safe repeated workflow
  • Communicate uncertainty honestly
  • Interpret a comparison without claiming causation
  • Compare search strategies
  • Evaluate errors across groups
  • Run a pilot and decide what changes

6 experiences · about 50 minutes each

Explore Grade 10
11

APPLY

Grade 11

Work from a brief, test your choices and communicate limits.

  • Prepare a project handover
  • Pitch an idea with evidence
  • Check a weighted decision
  • Design a small test suite
  • Plan human review for an AI workflow
  • Coordinate a team with clear handoffs

6 experiences · about 55 minutes each

Explore Grade 11
12

TRANSFER

Grade 12

Produce a reviewable portfolio with evidence and next steps.

  • Build an evidence-led portfolio
  • Defend and revise a recommendation
  • Audit a headline metric
  • Review an algorithm with an invariant
  • Evaluate whether AI is appropriate
  • Deliver a capstone with a learning plan

6 experiences · about 60 minutes each

Explore Grade 12

A SIMPLE LEARNING RHYTHM

Watch, try, make, explain

1. Understand

Read the goal and worked example. Use the animation’s Next button to inspect each step.

2. Practise

Answer three questions, read the feedback and correct your reasoning. You can retry.

3. Create

Make the project on paper or in an approved tool. Keep a short record of what you did.

4. Reflect

Review the criteria, explain your choices and choose a new situation in which to use the skill.

Suggested pace: one experience each week, or split it into two shorter sessions. Grade labels are starting points, not ability labels. Adults can adapt reading support, timing and challenge.

For each experience, spend roughly one quarter of the time on the example and animation, one quarter on exercises, and the remaining half on creating, explaining and reflecting. Take breaks as needed.

SCREEN TO PAPER

A guide for every grade

Each grade has an A4 learner guide with examples, steps and exercises, plus a separate teacher guide with answers, support and review criteria. Open a guide and choose Print or Save as PDF.

Download a ready-to-print PDF or use the web guide. Animations have written step equivalents; paper and oral alternatives are included.

KEEP LEARNING

Go deeper in Grade 4

The existing 30-lesson Grade 4 courses and five-day Excel course remain available, with their downloadable PDF workbooks and learner-account progress.

Open the full Grade 4 courses →

For adults supporting learning

Use fictional data and teacher-approved tools. Younger learners need adult support. No live AI account, public posting, purchase or personal information is needed for these activities.

The new pathways record practice checks and project notes locally in separate browser spaces. Project self-reviews need human feedback; passing a short exercise is not a certificate. Read the getting-started guide and saving advice.

Curriculum context

These original experiences draw on broad digital-learning, transferable-skills and AI-literacy themes. Grade placement is an editorial progression, not formal alignment or endorsement by a school board or the organisations below.